Description

Printed in 1975, Ragtime transformed our very idea of exactly what a novel might be. An exceptional tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the period between your turn of the century and the Very First World War.The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, in the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car right into a telephone pole outside their property. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical reality, between real and fictional people, vanishes.